Ewing v. Riley

The judgment appealed from was based upon the conclusion of the court below that the land in controversy was the homestead of G. I. Riley, the record owner thereof, and therefore not subject to attachment by a creditor. This holding presents the only material question in the case. If the property was in fact the homestead, the judgment must be affirmed; if it was not, the judgment must be reversed.

The record shows that prior to March, 1920, John W. Ewing owned and farmed a tract of 60 acres of land lying adjacent to, but wholly without, the corporate limits of the city of McAllen, in Hidalgo…